Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -10
Contract jobs citing Azure 103 17 39
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 13.32% 5.33% 8.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.23% 19.77% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 14 33
10th Percentile £321 £481 £188
25th Percentile £411 £496 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £544 £593
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -8.31% +0.94%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £680
90th Percentile £683 £738 £1,088
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.63% -2.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 310 86 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.10% 26.96% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 57 90
10th Percentile £313 £370 £348
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.49% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £537 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.79% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +9 99 £485 -10.80% 69
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 48
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) CICS
2 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.94%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.97%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.93%) AWS
2 63 (61.17%) GCP
3 14 (13.59%) OpenShift
4 13 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (11.65%) Entra ID
6 9 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.77%) Azure AKS
7 8 (7.77%) GitHub
7 8 (7.77%) SaaS
8 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (6.80%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.88%) Akamai
10 3 (2.91%) Cloudflare
10 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.94%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.94%) ChatGPT
11 2 (1.94%) Collibra
11 2 (1.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.62%) Firewall
2 6 (5.83%) DNS
3 5 (4.85%) VPN
4 4 (3.88%) HTTP
4 4 (3.88%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.91%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.94%) LAN
6 2 (1.94%) NAS
6 2 (1.94%) Network Security
6 2 (1.94%) SAN
6 2 (1.94%) SSL
6 2 (1.94%) VSAN
6 2 (1.94%) WAN
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.97%) FCoE
7 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.80%) Power BI
2 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.83%) MySQL
4 5 (4.85%) Metadata
4 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.88%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.94%) DataStage
6 2 (1.94%) DB2
6 2 (1.94%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.97%) Redis
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (25.24%) Jenkins
1 26 (25.24%) JIRA
2 16 (15.53%) GitLab
3 15 (14.56%) Postman
4 12 (11.65%) Selenium
5 10 (9.71%) SoapUI
6 8 (7.77%) Cucumber
6 8 (7.77%) REST Assured
7 7 (6.80%) Git
8 5 (4.85%) TestRail
9 3 (2.91%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.91%) JUnit
10 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.94%) TestNG
10 2 (1.94%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.97%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (42.72%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.30%) Finance
3 18 (17.48%) Banking
4 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Law
5 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Police
6 2 (1.94%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Legal
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (13.59%) Developer
2 12 (11.65%) Analyst
2 12 (11.65%) Architect
2 12 (11.65%) Lead
3 9 (8.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) Test Analyst
5 7 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.83%) Test Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Consultant
8 4 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.88%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (3.88%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.88%) Senior
8 4 (3.88%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.48%) REST
2 17 (16.50%) LDAP
3 13 (12.62%) OpenID
4 9 (8.74%) SailPoint
5 8 (7.77%) Regular Expression
6 7 (6.80%) .NET
6 7 (6.80%) Hugging Face
6 7 (6.80%) OAuth
6 7 (6.80%) OpenCV
6 7 (6.80%) PyTorch
6 7 (6.80%) SpaCy
6 7 (6.80%) TensorFlow
7 6 (5.83%) Middleware
7 6 (5.83%) SAML
8 5 (4.85%) JSON
9 4 (3.88%) Kafka
9 4 (3.88%) RESTful
9 4 (3.88%) XML
10 3 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (1.94%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (10.68%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.91%) IoT
5 3 (2.91%) Replication
5 3 (2.91%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.94%) Clustering
6 2 (1.94%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.94%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.97%) FMCG
7 1 (0.97%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (0.97%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.71%) Linux
2 7 (6.80%) Windows
3 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.94%) Solaris
3 2 (1.94%) Unix
3 2 (1.94%) VMS
3 2 (1.94%) zOS
4 1 (0.97%) CentOS
4 1 (0.97%) MVS
4 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (47.57%) DevOps
2 48 (46.60%) CI/CD
3 33 (32.04%) Agile
4 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
4 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (17.48%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.50%) API Testing
6 17 (16.50%) DevSecOps
6 17 (16.50%) Identity Access Management
6 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (15.53%) Migration
7 16 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (14.56%) Test Automation
9 13 (12.62%) Scrum
9 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.68%) Cloud Security
10 11 (10.68%) ETL
10 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
10 11 (10.68%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) Python
2 23 (22.33%) Java
2 23 (22.33%) SQL
3 8 (7.77%) Bash
4 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.83%) PHP
4 6 (5.83%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.88%) Groovy
6 2 (1.94%) C#
6 2 (1.94%) Go
6 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.97%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) ISTQB
2 10 (9.71%) CISM
2 10 (9.71%) CISSP
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.91%) CEH
4 3 (2.91%) GIAC
4 3 (2.91%) GWAPT
4 3 (2.91%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.91%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.94%) Degree
6 1 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.97%) CCA
6 1 (0.97%) CCSK
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) QA
2 9 (8.74%) GDPR
3 8 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (7.77%) PCI DSS
4 7 (6.80%) NIST
5 2 (1.94%) SLA
6 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (14.56%) Docker
2 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.91%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.91%) KVM
5 2 (1.94%) NFS
5 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.97%) Ceph
6 1 (0.97%) QEMU
6 1 (0.97%) Snort
6 1 (0.97%) SRDF
6 1 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.97%) Xen
6 1 (0.97%) XenApp
6 1 (0.97%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (34.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (25.24%) Terraform
3 19 (18.45%) Ansible
4 6 (5.83%) Grafana
5 4 (3.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.94%) Argo
7 2 (1.94%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.97%) Kibana
8 1 (0.97%) logstash
8 1 (0.97%) Podman
8 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.50%) Google
3 14 (13.59%) F5
4 10 (9.71%) ServiceNow
5 8 (7.77%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (7.77%) CyberArk
5 8 (7.77%) Oracle
5 8 (7.77%) Thycotic
6 6 (5.83%) VMware
7 5 (4.85%) Cisco
8 4 (3.88%) Imperva
8 4 (3.88%) NetApp
8 4 (3.88%) SAP
8 4 (3.88%) Splunk
9 3 (2.91%) EMC
9 3 (2.91%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.94%) Delphix
10 2 (1.94%) IBM
10 2 (1.94%) Informatica
10 2 (1.94%) Red Hat